US President Donald Trump has said he never asked former FBI director James Comey to drop the investigation of sacked national security adviser Michael Flynn's Russian Federation contacts and said he was willing "100%" to give his own account under oath.
He said the president had pressured him to drop a probe into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, whom Mr Trump fired for misleading the White House over contacts with Moscow's ambassador.
In the latest "not-normal" episode of his embattled presidency, Donald Trump on Friday declared-in a meandering statement that left reporters clamoring for clarification-that former FBI Director James Comey lied under oath in claiming he demanded "loyalty" and said he'll let the world know soon enough if tapes of their interactions exist or not.
Trump Jr.in his interview Saturday also hit Comey for his admission that he had leaked his memos on his encounters with the president to a close friend following his firing, who then read the memos to The New York Times. With a single tweet, Trump also castigated Comey for giving an account of his conversation with the president to a lawyer who shared it with a news outlet.
"James Comey confirmed a lot of what I said".
Opposition Democrats have said that the leaks occurred after Comey was sacked and no longer a government official. Comey tried to explain that the investigation of Clinton's emails was finished whereas the investigation of Trump's campaign is ongoing.
Kasowitz also maintained that the testimony made clear that Trump "never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone".
When asked about whether he had recordings of his conversations with Mr Comey, which he has previously hinted, the president said he would address it at a later date.
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Arizona and IL have already declared that their voter registration systems were targeted by hackers during the election. Either way, officials said they don't have any evidence that actual vote tallies were affected.
Mr Kasowitz also jumped on Mr Comey's revelation that he had released details of his private conversations with the president, casting the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director as one of the "leakers" set on undermining the Trump administration. But Republicans chose to ignore those things and focus on the aspects of Comey's testimony on Thursday that were favorable to Trump. Richard Burr, rose to his feet along with Comey and asked him to raise his right hand.
Trump critics said that was evidence that the president may have obstructed justice, possible grounds for impeachment.
He later said reporters were "going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer".
He also accused Qatar, a key US military partner, of funding terrorism "at a very high level", and said solving the problem in the tiny Persian Gulf nation could be "the beginning of the end of terrorism".
Trump had threatened Comey on Twitter with "tapes" of their conversations when accounts of their talks had begun to appear in the media. Just today, we also learned that Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, she's asked the chairman of her committee, the Judiciary Committee - Chuck Grassley - to look into all matters related to obstruction.
But their deliberation, said Savannah Law professor Andy Wright, a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, erases any doubt that Trump can not now claim executive privilege over his Comey meetings.
Trump abruptly fired Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on May 9, admitting later that the Russian Federation probe was on his mind at the time.
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